Han Dongsheng's old father-in-law, surnamed Zhou, is thin and tall, with a short head and doesn't talk much.
This old Mr. Zhou is literate and has the habit of reading at ordinary times. He carries his glasses with him. When he has a place to sit down, he takes out a book and reads a few pages.
But his readings are not helpful to increase his wisdom—except for nonsense such as "Introduction to Qigong", he reads all kinds of tabloids and magazines, which are full of urban legends of strange powers and chaos.
In recent years, the paper media has become less popular, and magazines have closed down one after another. The authors and readers of these stories have shifted their positions. When they went to the Internet, Mr. Zhou, who could not surf the Internet, was abandoned like many of his peers. Look at old magazines.
Put it aside after reading it, flip it out and read it again in a few days, he can't remember it anyway.
When he first arrived, Mr. Zhou didn't know anyone, and he was probably not used to life. Yu Lanchuan saw him walking downstairs alone several times, far away from other elderly groups, like an old dog who stumbled into someone else's territory by mistake. Only Uncle Yang probably looked at him pitifully, and occasionally stood up and said a few words to him.
Generally speaking, the elderly are reluctant to change their living environment, but can he stop his grandson from going to a good school just because he accepts his birth? Can he chop off his hands when he sees the word "health" and wants to buy, buy, buy
No, then his opinion doesn't matter.
No one expected that such a boring and lonely old gentleman would be found by the police less than a week after moving in.
Police Officer Yu Yan made a wish for "world peace" in Xingzhimeng on New Year's Eve, but it may be because he was only interested in introducing his colleagues' business, and he had no consumption, so he was careless, so the wish did not work.
Yu Yan came out of 804, went upstairs, and sat down on the sofa of Yu Lanchuan's house: "Why do I think I've been running to this building recently? There may be a problem with this room, there is a 'police-sucking stone' or something on the ceiling. , it doesn't work to change the resident. I'll go to 'Mr. Mengmeng' and ask for a transfer card."
Yu Lanchuan just got off work, and the scarf hasn't had time to unravel. No matter how many times he hears "Mr. Mengmeng", he will get goosebumps all over: "You straighten your tongue and speak."
Yu Yan unceremoniously took out the nut plate from under the coffee table and started to eat buffet: "Oh, it's good that you moved here, anyway, there is a place to rest."
"Comrade, why don't you take a stitch from the masses?"
"Where are you from the masses? You are clearly a running dog of the capitalists, a local tyrant who will be overthrown." Yu Yan waved his hand and asked again, "By the way, what time does Teacher Mengmeng come back?"
"How do I know?" Yu Lanchuan rolled his eyes impatiently. He hadn't "ran into" Gan Qing for a week, because he exposed the scam of "Mengmeng teacher" in the circle of friends. The woman who smoked changed her WeChat avatar to a dog's head. When she mentioned her, Yu Lanchuan became angry, "Am I her manager?"
Yu Yan was very wronged by his anger: "I don't know if you don't know, so angry?"
Yu Lanchuan: "What happened to 804?"
Yu Yan sighed: "I lost someone."
Yu Lanchuan sneered: "You? Isn't it unusual?"
"No kidding, real person." Yu Yan said, and took out a photo from his bag, "Lin Xiuhe, 71 years old, lives at No. 99 Rongxian Hutong - the community behind your house."
Yu Lanchuan took it over and took a look. She was an old lady dressed in a simple way, wearing a bun, wearing an earth-colored cotton jacket, and a pair of black cotton shoes. In front of the camera, he is very serious and doesn't seem to let go.
Yu Lanchuan: "What does it have to do with 804?"
"This old lady Lin is not an elderly person with dementia. According to her family, she is in good health and can take care of herself. It is reasonable to say that she will not go out and find a home. She usually has no other hobbies, so she likes to listen to a lecture on health care products or something. , it belongs to the one that goes to the house and buys it as soon as it is called. So we now suspect that the disappearance of the old lady has something to do with several roaming health product MLM gangs. These MLM gangs are also arrogant. The old man who moved to the house is also a fanatic of health care products. I came to him today to find out the situation. Tsk, the old man was very vigilant and said nothing, as if we were reactionaries persecuting Zhongliang.”
Yu Lanchuan: "When did it happen?"
Yu Yan: "It's been a week."
Yu Lanchuan frowned and said, "You were lost for a week before you started investigating. What did you do earlier? Just this winter in Yanning, go out and experience it for two nights. I don't think you should look for it, it's getting cold."
"It's not bad for us," Yu Yan said. "The family just called the police. Mrs. Lin lived with her son. The three of them went on vacation. They took the annual vacation and then the New Year's Day holiday. They just came back from abroad this morning and are tired I was sleepy again, and I didn't realize anything was wrong. When I woke up, my daughter-in-law found that a layer of dust had fallen in the kitchen, and the leftovers in the refrigerator had gone bad. As soon as I knocked on the door of the old lady's house, there was no one, so I hurried. Call the police."
Yu Lanchuan: "Then how do you know when the old lady lost it?"
"Their family ordered milk, and there was no one at home. The milkman put it in the electric well at the door. Six bottles have been stored." Yu Yan sighed, "My son is so anxious that his eyes are red, and we are not too worried. What to say, but…”
He "but" for a while, then swallowed the words again. "Family travel" sounds warm and relaxing, but if you take an old mother, it seems not to be the case.
An old lady who may have never been out of the provincial capital in her life wants her to travel across the ocean and fly to a foreigner's beach to lie down. She may not be able to sleep herself, and her children and grandchildren must take care of her, so she must not have a good time. It's like going to western food and having to replace the black pepper on the steak with soy tofu.
"This matter is not very optimistic now. We are still investigating nearby surveillance, and we have found nothing so far. Those health care product pyramid selling dens are also cunning, and they have experience in fighting guerrillas, so it is not easy to catch," Yu Yan said, "Lord Lan, Can I use your eyeliner?"
Just as he was talking about this, there was a sudden movement outside the door, and it seemed that someone next door had returned.
"Ah!" Yu Yan jumped up, "It's next door, I'm going to ask for your blessing."
"It's not her," Yu Lanchuan took a photo of Mrs. Lin and sent it to the nearby beggar gangs, pancake gangs and other major gangs, and said casually while writing a message, "Maybe it's Mrs. Zhang who came back from a trip—she doesn't lift her feet when she walks. , the footsteps are not like that."
Yu Yan: "..."
After Yu Lanchuan sent the message, as soon as he looked up, he saw Yu Yan's big face leaning over, his gums were exposed, and the "night-shift work-injured pimple" on his forehead was so red that it hurt his eyes. He felt that his glasses were fifty degrees longer and wrinkled. He raised his eyebrows and looked back: "What are you doing!"
"There is a situation." Yu Yanjian said in a whimper, "Listen to the footsteps to identify people... Hey, Alliance Leader, what level of magic is this? Give me some popular science."
"Everyone can do it," Yu Lanchuan said ruthlessly, "Go away."
"No," Yu Yan leaned closer, "Don't think I don't know, you are a straitjacket, and all unnecessary information is blocked. Don't tell people by listening before, you don't even know how to change the door of your neighbor's house. On the night of New Year's Eve, you ran to the dream of stars for a few small cards, and my eyes like a dead fish could see the trick!"
Yu Lanchuan: "…"
Yu Yan: "I can't see that you like this type. It's too contrasting. Could it be that every man has a rebellious wild horse in his heart?"
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Yu Lanchuan kicked Yu Yan back to his original position. "I was kidnapped when I was a child. She happened to meet me in the back alley of the mud pond, and she only caught me once."
Yu Yan was stunned for a moment and said in shock, "She is your..."
Yu Lanchuan: "Well."
Yu Yan: "...Bai Yueguang!"
In his spare time, the police officer may have read a lot of romance novels, and the words are very shocking. Yu Lanchuan rudely invited him out before he finished eating the cashew nuts. When he went out, he happened to meet Gan Qing who was off work, and there was a man behind him. Little Tail - Because of the police visit, a new round of domestic war broke out in the Han family, and Han Zhou took the opportunity to sneak out.
Child Han Zhou held a cardboard box with a small house and a small garden stuck with paper paste, and a bow tie on the outside of the box, chased Gan Qing all the way, and had to give it to her: "This is what I got in my handicraft class. The one who won the prize, just came back from the school exhibition, and specially asked the teacher to come back and give it to you!"
Gan Qing didn't want it very much, because he felt that this thing was like a "dark house" invited by a funeral home, and it didn't hurt the children's self-esteem, so he had to bite the bullet and take it.
Little Han Zhou picked up the scroll and said confidently, "You take this first, and when I grow up, I will buy one for you."
"Okay, thank you," Gan Qing stroked the little boy's smooth head, "don't be so troublesome, you can just burn this to me then."
Yu Yan greeted her with a smile: "Mengmeng teacher, charming, young and old!"
Yu Lanchuan had a gloomy face and looked out from the crack of the door.
Gan Qing smiled as soon as he saw him, and took the initiative to say hello: "Little Master Yu, dog..."
Yu Lanchuan slammed the door with a bang.
"...The Year of the Dog is auspicious." Gan Qing turned to Yu Yan innocently, "What taboo have I committed?"
"It's okay, it's okay, it's easy to be shy and moody during adolescence," Yu Yan said with a smile, "Our Lan Ye species has a relatively long puberty, maybe more than two hundred years, and it's good to go. Teacher Mengmeng, you Are there any props for lucky blessings? The kind that can help find someone... "
As soon as the solar calendar year is over, it will enter the "end of the year", and this time is always extraordinarily chaotic.
People who are eager to see through false expectations are impetuous, there are too many trivial matters, various meetings and entertainment are endless, but the year-end awards are always long overdue.
The thieves on the subway and the scammers on the phone ushered in the annual peak business season, and they were particularly active. The MLM organizations also began to work hard to improve their performance and forge ahead toward the goal of becoming the future "Charlie Munger". The police were busy.
Mr. Zhou finally seized the opportunity and slipped out of the house. He sneakily avoided the old man who was playing chess in the courtyard, went out through the small door, got on a bus, and the leather goods repairer who was about to open opened the door of the shop. , just saw this scene, took out his mobile phone and took a picture of the tail of the bus, and he sent the photo out.
At the same time, along this bus route, many eyes were fixed on it. The beggars and scavengers who went to the bus stop to pick up garbage winked at each other. The owner of the fried chicken chop looked at the roadside from time to time. The old man got out of the car, got into a bunch of small alleys, entered an old building, and walked to the basement.
The basement was cold and damp. Mr. Zhou knocked on the door, and a cautious voice came from inside: "We didn't order takeout."
Mr. Zhou replied, "I deliver newspapers."
"What newspaper?"
"Tomorrow's Evening News."
When the code was on, the door opened with a squeak, and there was still a chain inside. After recognizing Mr. Zhou, an old lady opened the door and quickly glanced around: "Old Zhou is here, come in quickly."
There were five or six people in the hut in the basement, and the youngest was in his sixties. All of them spoke in a low voice, as if connecting with underground workers.
"The police came to our house yesterday, how about you?"
Mr. Zhou said: "I went too, and asked about Lao Lin. Two children came, and I fooled them. I was careful and careful along the way, for fear that someone would follow."
"Actually, it's nothing to follow, and it's not something illegal or chaotic."
"Hey, Professor Xu and their stuff are all exported, and they are five or six times more expensive on the market, and they are secretly shipped directly from the manufacturer to get us some benefits, instead of going through the formal channels to make money. Let's be quiet too, don't make trouble for others - how do you use your infrared knee pads?"
Mr. Zhou lifted his trouser legs to reveal a knee pad, and said triumphantly: "It works, the joints are warm, and the knees are not cold. I hide this thing under the pillow and wear it secretly under the quilt every day. My daughter saw it. These little young people don't understand anything. Tell her, she is busy and busy, and has no time to listen to you. Little girl, I eat more salt than she eats, hum. "
"It's easy to use." The old lady who opened the door for him said, pointing to the cardboard box at the door, "Professor Xu brought us some soil eggs, all of which don't eat feed, and the big guys will get a share for a while. By the way, Professor Xu said that there are too many goods from the manufacturer recently, and it was known that someone from the manufacturer reported it with jealousy. We have to be careful. Next time the 'health' class will be changed, and we will inform you when the time comes. , the professor said, he will fight for it when the time comes, maybe there will be a free medical examination, and don't eat breakfast in the morning."
Everyone went to pick "earth eggs" one after another, and they were all red, and they felt that they had taken advantage of the sky.
Mr. Zhou didn't move. He stood there for a while and asked hesitantly, "Lao Lin... is he really gone?"
"The day before the new year, the police said."
"Look at the courage of others!" The old lady who opened the door for Zhou Lao stretched her thumb, "People didn't talk about it every day, they just said it once, and then they left without saying hello! I am now If you don't admire anyone, just admire Lao Lin!"
Mr. Zhou raised his head, and suddenly there was a little light in his cloudy eyes: "Then what do you think, is the thing we planned before still implemented?"